Yeah, I just saw that, I'm with you. Making fun of her problems with mental illness is a low blow. She was genuinely trying to reach out to her! Not on, Miley.

I do think its interesting though how both women assume totally different sides of how much involvement Miley really has in crafting this image. I would lean towards Amanda's interpretation personally, I'm only getting it from stuff like this though:http://www.vibe.com/article/miley-cyrus-asked-black-sound-si...

and I could be wrong, but it does seem like she has a lot more agency over this type of stuff than Sinead gives her credit for.

Sure, she's playing for the male gaze, but she's going to be judged through it whatever she does y'know? And sure, she doesn't really understand the implications of her actions (which are huge) but I think the point Amanda is getting at is that its a problem whenever anybody starts trying to police what another is doing - even if it's coming from a good place.

I think its way less insidious than Sinead implies, its less a board room of evil media moguls and more that Miley is a normal 20 year old girl who is immersed in this culture, who has a lot of freedom, money and drugs. She just wants to join in.

I think the idea is that what we should be working towards is her freedom to choose whether to lick the sledgehammer or not, and for her to do it on her own terms, rather than condemning sledgehammer licking altogether.